Liquids



V. HALL.

Beer Cooler.

No. 25,505. Patented Sept. 20, 1859.

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VALENTINE HALL,

OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

APPARATUS FOR COOLING LIQUIDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 25,505, dated September20, 1859; Reissued November 22, 1859, N0. 854.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VALENTINE HALL, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Refrig crating Device to beApplied to Liquors on Draft; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being hadto the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification, saiddrawing being a side elevation of my invention, partly in section.

This invention consists in placing one or more receivers and a pumpwithin a tank supplied with ice-water and connecting said receiver orreceivers and pump by means of a siphon or siphons and also connectingthe receiver or receivers by means of a siphon with the cask or barrelin the cellar below the tank,the whole being arranged substantially ashereinafter shown whereby the liquor may be drawn in a cool state andthe refrigerating device readily cleansed when necessary, all the partsbeing rendered very accessible.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention I will proceed to describe it.

A, B, represent two receivers which may be constructed of copper andtinned on their inner sides. These receivers may be of any proper sizeand they are connected and made to communicate with each other by acurved pipe or siphon C, said pipe or siphon connecting the upper partof A, with the lower part of B. The receiver B, is connected by a curvedpipe or siphon D, with a pump E, which may be of the usual or any properconstruction. The receivers as well as the pump are placed within a tankF, which is supplied with ice-water the latter extending above thereceivers and pump, at least it would be preferable to have thereceivers and pump fully submerged. The pump E, has the usual dischargepipe G, attached to it.

The receiver A, is connected with the barrel H, of liquor, which isplaced in a cellar below the tank, by means of a siphon I, the latterextending over the edge of the tank, and communicating with the lowerpart of A, as plainly shown in the drawing.

From the above description it will be seen that by producing a vacuum inthe receivers A, B, by means of the pump E, the receivers willimmediately fill with liquor from the barrel H, and as it is drawn foruse from the receivers A, B, by the pump the receivers will becorrespondingly supplied from the barrel H. The liquor therefore will becooled in the receivers before being used and will, so long as the tankis supplied with ice-water, be drawn in a cool state. The pump IE, itwill be seen also in consequence of being submerged within the tankserves as a refrigerator and the siphons C, D, I, serve as refrigeratorsexposing the liquor to a greater cooling surface than if simpleconnecting pipes were employed and also permitting the receivers to bemore readily detached from each other in case they require to be removedfrom the tank for repairs or other purposes. If, for instance, thesiphon I, were not employed and a vertical pipe used insteadcommunieating with the bottom of receiver A, said pipe would, in casethe receivers required to be removed from the tank, have to bedisconnected below the tank, and a hole made in the bottom of the tankto allow the pipe to pass through. This plan would not only occasiongreat embarrassment in removing the receivers from the tank but it wouldalso render the tank liable to leak a contingency which is fully avoidedby my arrangement.

The whole device, including the receivers, siphons and pump may bereadily cleansed by disconnecting the barrel H, from the lower end ofthe siphon I, and placing the latter in a vessel of water or anysuitable cleansing fluid and by means of the pump drawing the same upthrough the receivers and forcing it out therefrom until a thoroughcleansing is effected.

I am aware that receivers have been placed in vessels containing ice inorder to cool liquors on draft, but I am not aware that a receiver orreceivers have been arranged with a pump within a tank containing ice orice-water, and connected together and made to communicate with eachother by siphons and also made to communicate by a siphon with thebarrel or cask containing the liquor below or at the outer side of thetank. I do not claim therefore the employment or use of a receiverconnect-ed with a pump, irrespective of the arrangement herein shown anddescribed; nor do I claim any part or parts which might, when separatelyconsidered and apart from their 1. The employment or use of one or morereceivers A, B, placed Within a tank F (and connected with the barrel orcask H, by means of a siphon I, and With a pump E, Within or at theouter side of the tank for the purpose set forth.

2. I further claim combining a pump E,

with one or more receivers A, B, connected together and made tocommunicate With 15 each other by siphons C, D, when said parts aresubmerged Within a tank F, and made to communicate with the cask orbarrel H by means of a siphon I extending over the top of the tank,substantially as and for 20 the purpose set forth.

V. HALL.

Witnesses:

THOMAS KING, JOHN IRELAND.

